Improvement in tiles or slabs for flooring and wainscoting



rrane UNITED E. H. WooDwARD, or Nnw YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TILES 0R SLABS FOR FLOORING AND WAINSCOTING, AND FOR THE IVIANUFACTURE e 0F FURNITURE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 97,333, dated November 30, 1869.

To all whom, it may concern: l One of said tiles or slabs is shown at ce with Beit known that I, E. H. W OODWARD, of rings of veneer formed by laying up sheets the city and State of New York, have invented of material and gluing or otherwise cementa new and useful improvement in Tiles or ing the sheets to `each other. The block is Slabs for Flooring, W'ainseoting, &c.; and then eut up into sections, and the edges are the following is declared to be a correct destraightened or trimmed to shape. scription of the said invention. The flooring or wainscoting is laiddown in A want has long been experienced of a re- I any known or suitable Way. liable flooring material that could be used in I have shown the edges of the tiles as place of floor-cloth, vitriiied tiles, or slabs of I formed with grooved or undercut sides, so as marble, so as to be sufficiently ornamental, but to be held down by the strips t', that are 'astless costly and free from the objectionable ened to the door. features of tiles or marble. The surfaces should be dressed off smooth, My invention is designed with a View to oiled, waxed, or vitrified with a suitable the manufacture of slabs or tiles for the floorhardening compound, so as to exclude moisting and wainscoting of buildings in an ornaure, when the slabs or tiles are made of sheets mental manner. of veneer glued or cemented together.

I make use of sheets 4of different-colored It will be evident that a variety of patterns wood veneer, cut from around the log, or may be produced by laying the sheets of maotherwiseZ and roll or lay them around a core terial together in whatever manner may best of the desired shape to form the pattern, and suit the taste of the manufacturer or produce cause them to adhere together by glue or other the designated pattern.

suitable soluble or insoluble material, and the I have shown at Z), c, d, and e some of the log or block thus formed issawed or cut into patterns that may be producedin this manner.

tiles of the desired thickness, so as to expose The sheets of wood or other material being the ends of the sheets of wood, or other maof different colors, laid together as aforesaid,

tcrial. there is no risk of the pattern wearing out, The tiles, when cut, may be backed by any because it extends entirely through the slab,

suitable strengthening material. I

Sheets of different-colored porcelain mablocks or stripsV laid up at great cost, as by terial may be rolled to the desired thickness,

and formed into tiles in like manner, and

baked.

It is obvious that some patterns may be made without a core.

The end of the material presents the form or I ornamental character resulting from the manner -in which the sheets'are laid together, es-

or pasteboard rolled up, as aforesaid.

l claim as my invention-` A slab or tile formed of sheets of material laid together, as specified, and cut off so as to present the ends of the layers at the surface of such tile or slab, as specified. colors are employed, and said colors may be Dated this 16th day of November, A. D. produced by using natural wood, or the wood 1869. or other mater1al may be colored or dyed to obtain the desired color. E. H. VOODWARD.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a plan of the tiling, with several different patterns. Witnesses:

. Fig. 2 is a section showing how the slabs may CHAs. H. SMITH,

be fastened, and Fig. 3 shows a portion of a GEO. D. VALKER. tile in larger size. 

